Identification and stability of Reed butterfly (polypetalous butterfly)

In today's orchid world, everyone wants to have a high-quality butterfly flower, especially the pistil butterfly and the multi-petal butterfly, but its variability is elusive. Put down the orchid world famous butterfly flower not to say, once new, often its taste, stability difficult to choose, especially beginners. The author dare not say old, occasionally small gain, in order to prove.

All or any part of the petals of orchids evolve into label-shaped, lingulate phenomena, known as butterfly flowers. A variant of the orchid.

All the orchids holding flap tongue flap, then for the stamen butterfly (three-star butterfly).

Some of these variations occur occasionally, and the characters are fixed and do not reproduce in the following year. Some characters are fixed, and the newly propagated grass buds are also opened.

To distinguish whether it is really a pistil butterfly, the key is to look at the butterfly phenomenon of holding petals:

1. The petals must be completely butterfly.

2. The butterfly part should be true tongue flap.

3. The tongue flap should have colorful patches or spots (except for the butterfly).

Some called pistil butterfly, looks like three tongues, but carefully look, holding valve and normal valve son is the same, holding valve no obvious tongue phenomenon, only in the valve son more moss-like stains. This kind of "butterfly flower", commonly known as "flower face", is not a real pistil butterfly.

The appearance of butterfly flowers and their stability are still a mystery.

Among butterfly flowers, the most unstable are pistil butterfly and polypetalous butterfly, especially downhill orchid.

Orchid cultivation for many years, occasionally small harvest, for orchid friends drink together.

1. Nose head residual change: This is an important sign of stability of pistil butterfly and multi-petal butterfly. Nose residual change has double head, small head, columnar head (match head), adhesion head, the most valuable of which is the nose into columnar, small for the best. If the nose is normal, it is most likely that the butterfly will not reappear in the following year.

2. Symmetry: The tongued part of the two flaps should be symmetrical. Scattered and asymmetrical labial butterfly flowers, mostly incidental.

3. Uniform arrangement: multi-petal butterfly flowers, except that each part should be symmetrical, emphasize that the butterfly petals are arranged symmetrically and evenly.

4. Multilingual butterfly flowers also emphasize the variation of nose head, with small, columnar nose head as the top.

5, lip part should be lower feet, top, penetration, this is also one of the criteria to determine the quality of butterfly flowers.

Of course, these are not absolute, still must be combined with other references, such as grass type (strange grass, butterfly grass, dragon grass, etc.), multi-flower (strange butterfly) co-plant, etc., as well as personal orchid cultivation experience and experience.

In short, butterfly flower is a riddle, who guessed, who owns.